Nowhere does the poem move so far from everyday reality; this sweetly ceremonious household is half fairy-tale enchant- ment, half ancient Egypt where son married daughter to preserve the purity of the line.

Homer -- The Odyssey

He had his back to a rack of paperback books about oral-genital contacts from ancient Egypt to the present and so on, and the clerk supposed Billy was reading one of these.

Kurt Vonnegut -- Slaughterhouse-Five

In ancient Egypt, it was the symbol for Ra—the sun god—and modern astronomy still uses it as the solar symbol.

Dan Brown -- The Lost Symbol

He looked over his shoulder and saw a tall woman with the head and claws of a sleek feline, wearing the robes of ancient Egypt, leap at least twenty feet and land squarely on Nicholas Flamel’s back, driving him into the ground.

Micheal Scott -- The Alchemyst

The night was sweet with the dust of autumn leaves that smelled as if the fine sands of ancient Egypt were drifting to dunes beyond the town.

Ray Bradbury -- Something Wicked This Way Comes

It seemed to me that I had been transported into a country far away from this country, into an age remote from this age, that I stood in ancient Egypt and that I was listening to the speech of some highpriest of that land addressed to the youthful Moses.

James Joyce -- Ulysses

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He might say, for example, that like the pharaoh of ancient Egypt, the prime minister of South Africa was raising an army.

Nelson Mandela -- Long Walk to Freedom

The idea is sounded already in the Coffin Texts of ancient Egypt, where the dead man sings of himself as one with God: I am Atum, I who was alone; I am Re at his first appearance.

Joseph Campbell -- The Hero With a Thousand Faces

The inhabitants of ancient Egypt were called mummies.

Richard Lederer -- A Brief History of the World

…relating to fertility, goddess cults, Wicca, and the sacred feminine, but during his twenty-year tenure as curator, Saunière had helped the Louvre amass the largest collection of goddess art on earth—labrys axes from the priestesses’ oldest Greek shrine in Delphi, gold caducei wands, hundreds of Tjet ankhs resembling small standing angels, sistrum rattles used in ancient Egypt to dispel evil spirits, and an astonishing array of statues depicting Horus being nursed by the goddess Isis.

Dan Brown -- The Da Vinci Code

She might have stepped out of the histories’ ancient Egypt.

Ted Dekker -- White: The Great Pursuit

The custom goes back to ancient times, and some female mummies in ancient Egypt have cut genitals.

Nicholas D. Kristof -- Half the Sky

The fast food joints along the Strip seem insignificant compared to the new monuments towering over them: recreations of the Eiffel Tower, the Statue of Liberty, and the Sphinx, enormous buildings that evoke Venice, Paris, New York, Tuscany, medieval England, ancient Egypt and Rome, the Middle East, the South Seas.

Eric Schlosser -- Fast Food Nation

They were built to play up the connection between the British Empire and the Egyptian Empire.

Rick Riordan -- The Throne of Fire

Mine was an Eye of Horus, which was a popular protection symbol in Ancient Egypt.